Good week, bad week: Feb 19th

It's been a good week for lottery winners, but a bad week for the UK's third biggest driving school. Here's what else has had a good, or bad, time of it…

With £56 million now in his back pocket, Euromillions winner Nigel Page has no doubt already snapped up the 4x4 of his dreams, but he could also have afforded to buy Red Driving – the driving school – which went into administration on Thursday.

Hopefully it's not going to be such a bad weekend for the company's 400 employees, though, with a buyer expected to surface some time on Friday.

Production output figures for UK factories showed a record increase, too, while Halfords has stepped into the lucrative car servicing market (it's worth at least £10 billion a year).

Toyota continued to fire fight over safety concerns, hybrids could lose their congestion charge exemption and Daihatsu stopped bringing cars into the UK.

With the Geneva motor show just around the corner it's been a busy week for new models, with the Vauxhall Flextreme GT/E and Peugeot 5 concept cars breaking cover.